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The USA is home to several of the world's most exciting cities, some truly mind-blowing landscapes, a strong sense of regionalism, a trenchant mythology, more history than the country gives itself credit for and, arguably, some of the most approachable natives in the world.
The US was fashioned from an incredibly disparate population who, with little in common apart from a desire to choose their own paths to wealth or heaven, rallied around the ennobling ideals of the Declaration of Independence to forge the richest, most inventive and most powerful country on earth.
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Fri, 11 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [102]
NO TRIP TO THE HOUSTON AREA would be complete without a visit to Sabine Woods Audubon Sanctuary—at least for birders like us. Yes, we know we’re here too soon for the Spring migration but we’re hoping to see a few of those famous Early ... Read more >
Sun, 6 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [32]
AFTER TWO WEEKS OF SLOTH ON FLORIDA’S Turquoise Coast we’re back on our Grand Tour. This leg took us through Alabama and Mississippi to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. After our 8-hour journey from Pine Island to Destin, the drive to ... Read more >
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [68]
IT’S BEEN TWO AND A HALF YEARS since Hurricane Ian crashed through Fort Myers and just a single lane on the only bridge connecting Pine Island to the mainland is open. On-going construction regularly stops traffic dead. Businesses along Pine Island ... Read more >
Sun, 9 Mar 2025 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 8 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 20 Nov 2024 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 13 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [86]
WE HAVEN’T EVEN BOARDED THE SHIP and the itinerary has been changed! Yes, we are leaving again, a month aboard Holland America’s Oosterdam, sailing the “long way” to Buenos Aires, through the Panama Canal and around Cape Horn.... Read more >
Wed, 6 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [126]
IN THE 50S WHEN SPACE WAS THE NEW FRONTIER, families would gather in front of tiny b&w TVs and anxiously count-down with each new space launch. Today, 65 years later, launches from Cape Canaveral have become ho-hum events—we actually watched ... Read more >
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [91]
ST. AUGUSTINE IS THE OLDEST CITY in the United States. It is also the last “Friends and Family” stop on this leg of our Grand Tour. John’s sister Jean “Charlotte” and daughter Carli moved down from “Joisey” about ... Read more >
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [95]
EVEN THOUGH IT’S ONLY ABOUT 400 MILES from Myrtle Beach to St. Augustine, we broke up the trip with a stop in Georgia. When we last visited Savannah in ’05—the details are a bit fuzzy in my mind—we seem to recall having a good ... Read more >
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [132]
WE VAGABONDS HAVE TO BE SOMEWHERE; a hotel or hostel, a birding tour or cruise ship. Or an AirBnB in Myrtle Beach SC. It’s a logical stop on the way to Florida, the price is right and we enjoyed our visit in the spring of ’21.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [106]
THE ORIGINAL PLAN ON OUR WAY SOUTH called for a stop in the Blue Ridge Mountains. but after Hurricane Helene washed out much of Asheville NC, we went to Plan B, a cozy AirBnB cottage in Kill Devil Hills.
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Sat, 12 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 11 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [134]
WE HAD AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE FOR STOPPING in Virginia. Of course we wanted to see old friends Steve and Roz but we had also arranged to have our South Dakota absentee ballots forwarded to them in Fairfax. This year especially, voting—forgive the expression—... Read more >
Tue, 8 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [96]
CONNIE, BLESS HER HEART, WAS ON DECK at 4:30 AM when Venezia passed beneath the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and sailed by the Statue of Liberty so the photos from the Hudson were taken with her iPhone. We were packed and breakfasted by half-past eight ... Read more >
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